Have you tried Thom's Material Tools http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17587

@jason_maranto said: In the components palette, context click on the component definition. Best, Jason. D'oh! I never knew this.

@samuel_t said: You can doing scattering with the free plugin: Random Entity Generator. 8 years later.... rather late than never.

"The Wacky Circumference" ??? [flash=425,344:ezw7ngnu]http://www.youtube.com/v/upIMfHFgWtQ?s=1&hl=en_GB&fs=1&&[/flash:ezw7ngnu]

Method 1 is similar to how I would've done it, except that I would rather make a vertical row(column) first, because that would make it easier to select (unless it is a very tall building).

Well, these aren't really panels. It's stucco/eifs with joints so the subs don't care if there are 3 sizes or 30 because the joints are located on site. It's not like a cement panel where a form needs to be made and they need to be modular. Regardless, I have no influence on this. The fact is there is very little constancy. What you're describing seems to be the best method without a ruby. Once some simple modeling is done, a ruby is unnecessary true, however it's quite a lot of simple and repetitive modeling, which is what ruby's tend to excel at. If you had the option would you do it your way? Or would you bring in the CAD drawings, run Make Faces on it and then run a Make Bevels script on it and be done? -Brodie

@box said: I followed the instructions and it works for me. yippy i have fund thanks

as it turns out the one on the right did work out much better in this instance and after flipping just a few faces it seemed almost perfect. [image: jiTe_Capture1.PNG] [image: 4JfM_Capture2.PNG] the one on the left however had some major issues! go figure. [image: JCWh_Capture3.PNG]

right. and learn Max... There's also Modo, Cinema4D, Maya, etc. Definitely depends on how much animation you're doing whether it's worth putting up with vfsu. Also, note that vfsu is limited with animating objects between scenes (as in you can't) In terms of setting up an animation, you can pre-calculate the light cache and the irradiance map. Here's the link to the tutorial I used. http://vray.us/vray_tutorials/vray_tutorial_irradiance_map2.shtml Andy

You're most welcome, I'm glad it helped. ^_^

TIG Texture Tools You owe it to yourself to get that one Brodie. Saves a ton of time. Especially for tweaking wood grains.

Inundated with help! That looks to be just the thing. I'll give it a shot on monday. Thanks for the help. -Brodie

MaterialConsolidator is probably the best tool ever to get rid of redundant materials. There are two ways to apply a material, either by using the paint bucket (which changes the UVs) or by selecting the faces and choosing a different material from the entity info. As for my experience this preserves the UVs.

That's certainly the closest to what I'm looking for. What would improve it are 1) control over the amount of jitter (I was able to control it some by editing the .rb file but that's not the best option) and 2) each vertex should be aware of what it's neighbors are doing (so instead of each point having a totally random value it has a random value in relation to the vertices next to it so you can create waves at various frequencies - that would be better for bends in metal coping) -Brodie

Ya, I find that troublesome as well. I'm not what capabilities Photo Director has but I was planning on putting a bit of blur in with adobe after effects -brodie

Brilliant! totally forgot about that, thanks again! -Brodie

@tig said: Actually I rewrote the code in my version so that it remembers the current ... Any chance you could make that version available for download?

excellent plugins. thank you very much. Same but there is a plugin for the delay between scenes?

If using a Mac to compile jpg to avi/mov and flash I use Avidemux http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/ 100% free and you can resize enhance filters and many more options, this is not bad for the novice to use